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Minion Clifton

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Minion Clifton was a Black sharecropper backed by the Share Croppers' Union, framed on an arson charge at Dadeville, Alabama in 1933 amid the terror against the union in Tallapoosa County.

Case

Charges: Framed on an arson charge at Dadeville, Alabama.
Arrested: 1933
Sentence: Held; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held on the arson charge, 1933